A project in collaboration with The Crafts Council and Kings College London working with Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Naomi Mcintosh and Nantachai Sornkarn.

Friday, 14 November 2014

artandsciencetakingplacesimultaneously

Our 3rd meeting – what a day as ever so many
thoughts and ideas but somehow today everything gelled – some ideas are becoming
concluded (for now) – others expanded (later)- the video of swirling data
surrounding and swirling around and within one of our structures mapping light
levels oooooooooooohhhh – it just looked like SCIENCE- this led to us thinking
about mapping and documentation – so we are planning to document all the structures we have made – reflecting on
them and mapping the connections by remembering and creating links between them
– thinking around the idea of genetics – the children of the parent structures –
this will be undertaken in a number of ways - visually, with the knowledge of
what led to what within a linear timeframe and also by applying code to map
similarities. Some filming took place – we pretended to look and talk
spontaneously – painful but it meant that myself and Naomi got time to discuss
and plan for the next sessions (running a workshop for PHD students). Also the
lab did look really cool – art and science taking place simultaneously both
feeding off each other so that it was difficult to work out when one concluded
and the other started.

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squeeze fold bend and expand

squeeze fold bend and expand - Structural Memory in Deformable Objects is a Project organised in collaboration with the Crafts Council and Kings College London.

The project examines soft robotics using visual thinking to problem solve. We are specifically developing the idea of change and adaption without compromising functionality, exploring the idea that a form takes the shape A; it becomes B and has the ability to return to A.

Through lateral thinking we are developing a unique way of exploration, extending knowledge around current soft robotics through model making. Setting out to challenge and expand our practices by exploring ways of controlling movement and articulation of objects in order to build new structures whose functionality and manipulation will be framed and enriched by knowledge of soft robotics.